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JA: And your sons all participated in the Boys Club?

MH: Everything, uh-huh, baseball, football, basketball, judo down there. Judo was there, too.

JA: In the prewar days, it seems it was largely just Caucasians and Nikkei. What was it like back in the '50s?

MH: In the '50s it was a little different. They were all together. We just played together, did everything together. Even the judo classes, a lot of Caucasians come to that now at the Bellevue Boys Club. It's a big thing there, uh-huh.

JA: Were there any other people of color other than Nikkei?

MH: In my boys, yeah. We had African Americans that were very active with our children. They went to school, they went to elementary school together, they to high school together, graduated together. In the meantime, their mother was a den mother and so, and my husband helped with the Cub Scout, Boy Scout, with her. And so our children were always together with them and with our children as they grew up.

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